Talk:Boater

Its a boater
why is tghis page called boatman hat when the hat is called a boater?Slatersteven (talk) 19:59, 16 May 2009 (UTC)]]

I think that the hat was called the cady not the katie (or both?).--Thx1138az (talk) 16:32, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

Conflict with page on Harrow School. This page says the Boater is part of the uniform of Harrow School; the Harrow School page says the Harrow Hat is erroneously known as a boater. Someone who knows which is right might like to make the changes needed to harmonise the two pages. Queryit (talk) 22:06, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

Jac16888 thanks for the note -- what did you do/find out? Frazierdp (talk) 03:29, 4 October 2014 (UTC)

Requested move 26 June 2018

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The result of the move request was: No consensus to move. Nothing showed that the hat does not (or does) have primary topic over people who go boating. Red Slash 19:09, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

Boater → Boater hat – For simplicity rather than brackets, per WP:CONSISTENCY with equivalent Bowler hat inter alia. Chicbyaccident (talk) 15:12, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Oppose bowler hat is called a bowler hat while boater, trilby, and homburg aren't עם ישראל חי (talk) 16:30, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Oppose. I agree with the above reasoning. Rreagan007 (talk) 16:35, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Oppose per AmYisroelChai. JDDJS (talk) 01:47, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Move to Boater (hat), and move the disambiguation page, Boater (disambiguation) to this title. bd2412  T 19:09, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Agree. Chicbyaccident (talk) 22:48, 3 July 2018 (UTC)


 * Oppose. No other article titled "boater" so no need for disambiguation of title. Station1 (talk) 05:36, 4 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Support and move Boater (disambiguation) to Boater. This is certainly not the primary topic over a person who engages in boating or the other topics. And contrary to the above, "boater hat" is demonstrably used in sources, meaning it's effective WP:NATURALDIS and preferable to a parentheses.--Cúchullain t/ c 14:37, 5 July 2018 (UTC)


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Too much detail for lead
I'm usually trying to get more in the lead in articles that fail to summarize, but here's a case where the level of detail in the lead (which is fairly long, for such a thoroughly non-momentus topic) simply contains too much:

... such as at Harrow School, Shore School, Brisbane Boys' College, Knox Grammar School, Maritzburg College, South African College School, St John's College (Johannesburg, South Africa), Wynberg Boys' High School, Parktown Boys' High School and numerous Christian Brothers schools (CCB).

I'll leave that for a future editor to wrangle into a different shape. &mdash; MaxEnt 15:27, 23 May 2019 (UTC)

Convention hats
I wanted to discuss my edit on boater hats. Someone marked it as not am improvement. I thought it was @c.fred but this is my first time behind the edits so im learning as I go about how Talk works.

Part of why I use Wikipedia is the why of things and I had to do some research as to why boater hats are used at conventions. I thought the article could use more than a sentence about it. In a perfect world I wanted to add a picture or two but the Wikipedia help notes say my account isn’t old enough. Lacimoore1 (talk) 15:52, 4 September 2022 (UTC)